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Myanmar Military Coup Sees Prominent Political & Cultural Figures Arrested As Army Seizes Power

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Military forces have seized control of the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, citing disputed claims of electoral fraud and throwing numerous high-profile figures in jail.Among those to be imprisoned is the Nobel Prize-winning politician Aung San Suu Kyi, who helped the country transition to democracy in the 2010s and had been leading the nation as State Counsellor.Reporting out of Myanmar has been hampered by the military’s disruption of phone and internet services, and local TV stations are also off air, but several publications have written that other figures believed to have been detained include the filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who has previously spent time behind bars as a political prisoner for his criticism of the military, and the

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